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Help with captivate doesnt power on

I was trying to flash this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952588 i was in step 6 and clicked start but the blue bar wasnt moving for 20 minutes so i closed odin and removed my captivate battery and put it back and opened odin again an tried to boot into download mode but the phone never turn on.. if ANYONE have something that can help me please contact me as fast as posible

Try to make/buy a jig.
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so i bricked the phone?

if it was step 6 then yes its bricked. you were flashing bootloaders at that time, thats where the only risk is and thats where it messed up. contact at&t or samsung, play dumb say some bs about trying to use kies and get a warranty replacement, or go to mobiletechvideos.com and he can jtag it for 50 u.s. dollars. only options...sorry man

sad but yes that was the only step that can brick ur phone.
Edit: But i am guessing that u have tried both download mode combinations already

I can fix this for you...PM sent.

boot into download mode was never the problem, the problem was in step 6 that the process stoped i dont know why

noone ever said your problem was getting into download mode?
Odin sometimes hangs,freezes,fails, or just decides to be a douche and not work properly. It's not guaranteed to work flawlessly 100% of the time. There is a chance of odin doing that everytime you use it, the only time you risk bricking is when it does that while flashing bootloaders. which that's all you were flashing in that step.

dammm you odin for not work properly whe i was flashing the bootloader -___-

Contact connexion, hes got jtag stuff to use. Pretty useful stuff...
He posted above
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[Q] total brick galaxy s 4g t-mobile??

hello my problem is this, I wanted to update the telephone froyo to gingerbread, but I needed to first get into recovery mode, I was trying several agreed, but did not work, then I find information for how to enter recovery mode, i found a tutorial, explaining that many companies block to enter recovery mode, you first need to install a file to have the mode, by odin. I follow step by step tutorial, and odin showed all correct, then the phone went black, will not start, took the pile and put it back, and still does not work, I have tried several but none agreed,'s try the JIG but neither method worked, I think I have no choice but to take it to technical service, but my question is, if the phone has a solution, because it is dead. thanks for the help can give me.

i'm not 100% sure what you did, but it looks like you hard bricked your phone, if it does not even start up. where did you hear all of this stuff, btw? you should have checked the bible on how to do this stuff.

kakarh said:
hello my problem is this, I wanted to update the telephone froyo to gingerbread, but I needed to first get into recovery mode, I was trying several agreed, but did not work, then I find information for how to enter recovery mode, i found a tutorial, explaining that many companies block to enter recovery mode, you first need to install a file to have the mode, by odin. I follow step by step tutorial, and odin showed all correct, then the phone went black, will not start, took the pile and put it back, and still does not work, I have tried several but none agreed,'s try the JIG but neither method worked, I think I have no choice but to take it to technical service, but my question is, if the phone has a solution, because it is dead. thanks for the help can give me.
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Whoawhoawhoa.
First of all, you don't need anything aside from ODIN to install Gingerbread.
Second, what did you do before the screen went black, and the phone would not start?
To get into recovery mode, you must hold the up and down volume buttons, while holding the power button.
Anyway, before trying the Jig, explain exactly what you did once you got the phone into download mode.
Remember, download mode is different than recovery mode.
Odin=needs download
Recovery=For CWM
Read the quickstart guides.
http://www.cyclopscomputers.com/gs4g

hello, I explain, I was reading a post that would tell me step by step how to install gingerbread, download odin 1.85, when I get to step into recovery mode, the phone usually only kindled.
then mentioned that some teams were locked and needed by odin Unlock it with these files:
adb
aries_P.SBL.tar.md5
reboot download
odin upload files and puts on the screen that everything was done successfully, but the phone was black screen, then disconnect and I want to restart the phone and it stuck.
not much like doing these things, and I think I'm paying for my mistakes, find information here on the forum and follow some methods like these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069032
but none worked, this happened to me yesterday also left without battery Saturday night the entire phone and follow the steps above but does not work,
JIG use the method does not work,
this is the problem I have is that it is safer for a service technician, but you who know the subject, if you are under, I do not want the surprise to be told the service technician who is no longer available,
Thanks for your answers

I'm not sure I'm following you all the way, but when you say the screen is stuck, that means it is starting up, right? Is it stuck on the galaxy s startup screen?
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Sorry if I do not write well, my English is not very good, I am saying is that the phone
try to say is that the phone works not already more dead, nothing appears on the screen, hopefully appear something, but nothing appears, it died completely, the phone can have resolution?

kakarh said:
hello, I explain, I was reading a post that would tell me step by step how to install gingerbread, download odin 1.85, when I get to step into recovery mode, the phone usually only kindled.
then mentioned that some teams were locked and needed by odin Unlock it with these files:
adb
aries_P.SBL.tar.md5
reboot download
odin upload files and puts on the screen that everything was done successfully, but the phone was black screen, then disconnect and I want to restart the phone and it stuck.
not much like doing these things, and I think I'm paying for my mistakes, find information here on the forum and follow some methods like these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069032
but none worked, this happened to me yesterday also left without battery Saturday night the entire phone and follow the steps above but does not work,
JIG use the method does not work,
this is the problem I have is that it is safer for a service technician, but you who know the subject, if you are under, I do not want the surprise to be told the service technician who is no longer available,
Thanks for your answers
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he flashed another devices secondary bootloader to the device instead of the sgs4g boot and sbl files hes hardbricked unless he has access to a riff box for a recovery

kakarh said:
Sorry if I do not write well, my English is not very good, I am saying is that the phone
try to say is that the phone works not already more dead, nothing appears on the screen, hopefully appear something, but nothing appears, it died completely, the phone can have resolution?
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thats because u flashed the aries secondary bootloader file over your phones bootloader file hince why you got a hardbrick

kakarh, I guess that's the final word. sorry. Try to talk to tmobile for a new phone.
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by all means do not tell them that you flashed your phone unless u want them to tell u were sorry we cant help u

Why would you flash that bootloader? This forum gives you all the information to mod your phone as you see fit.

So his phone doesnt boot up at all, remembered i did that to my htc hd2
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killajerv0129 said:
So his phone doesnt boot up at all, remembered i did that to my htc hd2
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thats what a hardbrick is yes when you flash the wrong sbl and boot files to a phone yes it hard bricks with 0 software recovery without using a riff box or jtag

I'm from mexico and buy the phone online, I understand that the phone is dead, right now the situation that scares me is if the phone is completely dead, the phone has not even repair technical service, because I have no warranty and need to carry a technical service here in Mexico and would have to pay, pay is not a problem right now, so that the service technician can revive the phone. you think they can run again, or already lost my money?

kakarh said:
I'm from mexico and buy the phone online, I understand that the phone is dead, right now the situation that scares me is if the phone is completely dead, the phone has not even repair technical service, because I have no warranty and need to carry a technical service here in Mexico and would have to pay, pay is not a problem right now, so that the service technician can revive the phone. you think they can run again, or already lost my money?
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Ask them
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I'll ask them, but I almost hope I have not, well, thanks for your answers I will comment after what happened to the phone. regards

PM sent...I can revive this for you.

Why dont you give us a link for that tutorial you followed?

I bricked my phone. The screen shows a... phone..!..computer symbol. Can the phone still recover from this with odin?

Please Help me. I cant go without a phone. I feel naked and vulnerable

[Q] Flash wrong ROM = brick?

Hello all,
I need a Genius to help!
I flash wrong ROM to my Galaxy S 4GS T959V, I think I flash Galaxy S 9000 ROM, and I think I destroy the boot loader.
The status of the phone is:
its not display a thing! nada blank screen!
Even if I take the battery out and put it back with volume up and down pushed the screen not blink!
In all the cases above if I connect the USB cable the computer does not make a sound of device connected, like nothing as connected to the computer
Can anybody know what to do in this case?

Sounds like a hard brick. Mine hard bricked recently, time to get a replacement unless you got a riff box, or find someone who does.

Raver posted a thread in the dev section on a possible way to fix a hard brick. Check that out and see if it helps.
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warranty?
Dose any one claim warranty because flashing wrong ROM?

Once you root your phone you void the warrenty
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but how can they know? the phone is hard brick!

Trust me. They know.
What i did was. Keep repeating the process
1. take out battery
2. plug phone in computer
3. put in battery while holding up+down volume buttons
4. if you cant get into download mode, repeat process.
*Take out usb cable, take out batery and start over. It eventually worked for me. Took like 40 tries.
Idk. It miggt just be me, but this is how i did it and i saved my phone. P.s. Make sure you have life left in your battery!
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try out raver's hard brick fix. try out mad's hard brick fix on rootzwiki.

Dont give up. Keep trying different methods. Maybe even see how to boot up the i1900 into recovery. Just a though.
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jager555 said:
try out raver's hard brick fix. try out mad's hard brick fix on rootzwiki.
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can you write a links? I don't find those methods
Thanks

I didn't try 40 times but when I tried more then 10 and connected to Linux console to see if there is any activity from the USB plug, its was dead, nothing.. the USB didn't have even ID or any meaningful information or any indication that something is a live there...
I will return it to the warranty, hope they will not see it.

How to unbrick Samsung droid Charge!!

Hey guys found a way to unbrick Samsung droid charge and revert back to stock.
1. Download and install Odin found here ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085190 ) unzip and open
2.Download this file and unzip ( CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5.7z) from here ( http://www.multiupload.com/6WJ2SFUKO6 ) or original thread where i found this file is from here ( http://androidflip.com/android-2-3-...are-on-samsung-droid-charge-installing-guide/ )..
In case it fails and it just keeps failing try this other file is not stock but it is 2.3.4 and it works great here is a link to find the file ( http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5PUB8UY7 ) and it also find a mirror download here ( https://rapidshare.com/#!download|9...ar.md5.7z|391371|RapidPro expired. (34fa3175) ) i tried it guys and it does work.
3. set phone to download mode, do this by taking battery of phone, plug phone into computer and hold Volume down, a Yellow triangle with a working android will appear.
4. Click on odin you will see your phone come up under ID:COM, now do not click on anywhere but on PDA thats where you will have to find the file you downloaded on step 2 and make sure is the unzipped file. once u find it, click on open then start.
5. Be patient this can take up some time, once is done the box will turn green and say pass, at this time your phone will no longer have the Yellow triangle and you can unplug and place the battery back in and turn phone on.. once again be patient when turning phone on it will take a little while to complete.
i tried this and it does work, my Droid charge was bricked and now it works.
Thanks to xda-developers where i was able to find odin and also thanks to androidflip.com where i was able to find the Droid Charge stock rom to flash it back using odin.
Hope this helped everyone needing help.

Thanks for posting this, but it isn't the end-all-be-all. I tried to recover from a bad flash using this method and it failed.
I got the error message seen in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
The method in that post failed to help me recover.
I finally found this method (which is linked much later on in the thread above):
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...harge-full-factory-tar-flashing-software.html
and it worked perfectly for me.
So, if the first method from the OP fails, you have the Samsung PST flash utility that may help.

Yea i was also getting that message at first but it worked fine, but i also ended up installing the 2.3.4 so it worked out well.. was able to fix and unbrick my Droid charge.

I think this is already in a thread here...
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We've known about this for a while, but thanks. There's a "How to fix your phone" thread in development which also includes a pit file you use in combination with that .md5
Also, you were probably just bootlooped, not bricked.

Thanks Guys for the input. I thought i was bricked, looked to me i was bricked... But i did this steps and was able to fix my droid charge... I did bot know there was a threath about this on here.. just trying to help people fix their phone if this can be helpful for them that's good.
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I bricked my droid charge
Can I just pay somone to have it unbricked wthout paying $100 +? I dont trust myself to unbrick the device.

jonnyb81 said:
Can I just pay somone to have it unbricked wthout paying $100 +? I dont trust myself to unbrick the device.
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look in the dev section for the 'Unbrickable Mod', theres a guy who'll do it for 40 bucks I think

I thought being bricked meant not being able to get into even Download Mode.
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DirgeExtinction said:
I thought being bricked meant not being able to get into even Download Mode.
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yeah but even then its not completely hopeless, there are USB jigs that can force it into download mode and this 'Unbrickable Mod' thing that requires tinkering with the internals which is supposedly fool proof
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I've seen the term "bricked" thrown about a lot so I'm going to clarify some things.
First of all, there are two types of brick, a soft-brick and a hard-brick.
Soft-brick, that's what people often say when they have a boot-loop. This isn't a brick in the traditional sense. It's not really a brick, you can still recover it if you're at this stage. As long as you can get to the screen with the big yellow triangle you're not bricked at all and you can recover it.
Hard-brick, this is a true brick. This is what happens when the phone will not do anything. Won't show the Samsung logo, won't show the yellow triangle screen, won't do anything at all. At this stage, it might as well be a brick because you can't do anything to it. JTAG should be able to reload the bootloader and the base firmware.

trparky said:
I've seen the term "bricked" thrown about a lot so I'm going to clarify some things.
First of all, there are two types of brick, a soft-brick and a hard-brick.
Soft-brick, that's what people often say when they have a boot-loop. This isn't a brick in the traditional sense. It's not really a brick, you can still recover it if you're at this stage. As long as you can get to the screen with the big yellow triangle you're not bricked at all and you can recover it.
Hard-brick, this is a true brick. This is what happens when the phone will not do anything. Won't show the Samsung logo, won't show the yellow triangle screen, won't do anything at all. At this stage, it might as well be a brick because you can't do anything to it. JTAG should be able to reload the bootloader and the base firmware.
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well that's bootlooping not a soft brick, a soft brick would be when you flash something wrong or stop odin mid flash or flash something corrupted then get that little "phone --- ! --- pc" thing (done it twice myself) but yes it is recoverable
permabrick is indeed when it won't power on or do anything, it is a paperweight
hard brick is usually when it won't go into download mode but may still boot up or even go into recovery (probably just bootloops though), however as I mentioned in my last post none of these situations are completely hopeless
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge

anoninja118 said:
yeah but even then its not completely hopeless, there are USB jigs that can force it into download mode and this 'Unbrickable Mod' thing that requires tinkering with the internals which is supposedly fool proof
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can anyone help me out to finding diy on how to do this ^ .... cause i cant get my phone to go into download mode nor will it power on

DaRobsterr said:
can anyone help me out to finding diy on how to do this ^ .... cause i cant get my phone to go into download mode nor will it power on
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this is supposed to be a guide I think: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245391
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge

DaRobsterr said:
can anyone help me out to finding diy on how to do this ^ .... cause i cant get my phone to go into download mode nor will it power on
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You're supposed to put in the battery for it to turn on....
But seriously, there's a thread for it in the dev section, but just hope you're good at soldering.
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There always a way to unbrick the charge, it's all thru the development forum. I have had several android phones and have bricked all off them and recovered all them- htc incredible, htc wildfire, droid x and the charge
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kvswim said:
You're supposed to put in the battery for it to turn on....
But seriously, there's a thread for it in the dev section, but just hope you're good at soldering.
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I tried everything battery in and out to get into download mode. Ended up finding a post somewhere and read that i should try a usb jig; which is why im guessing if you asked if i was good at soldering. To answer that question yes i am good at it. But i called verizon and they ended up sending me a replacement. Thanks for the guys who tried to help me out.

Bricked my Phone

I require help....
How to unbrick my Galaxy Ace Duos? i cannot go into download or recovery mode. its just a blank black screen.
I cannot go into download or recovery mode. Its just a blank black screen? - I rooted my galaxy ace duos then flash cwm. Then reboot the device till then everything went blank. I cannot get it into recovery mode at all. I have tried the all 3 buttons methos but no luck. Please help ::
Maulin

rawalmaulin said:
... I cannot go into download or recovery mode ...
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If you can't enter download or recovery.. bad thing

I dont think that's possible.

Take out the battery, put it back in, hold the vol down and plug in the phone?

Can anyone provide odin downloader link so I can do something with it? I have several times try to start the phone but its not starting at all. No logo or no vibration or just nothing. I am lot worried and trying everything. Can't understand what has happened? Earlier I was using Galaxy Y and have perform all this things in it for several times but can't understand what is happening in this phone. Its a new model so no help or nothing available even here at XDA-forums...
Please anyone can help me out..
kobekoy said:
I dont think that's possible.
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orangekid said:
Take out the battery, put it back in, hold the vol down and plug in the phone?
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I have several times try to start the phone but its not starting at all. No logo or no vibration or just nothing. I am lot worried and trying everything. Can't understand what has happened? Earlier I was using Galaxy Y and have perform all this things in it for several times but can't understand what is happening in this phone. Its a new model so no help or nothing available even here at XDA-forums...

orangekid said:
Take out the battery, put it back in, hold the vol down and plug in the phone?
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I am trying to lookout for the usb storage of the phone by connecting usb cable but even it is not get recognized by the windows. And if I connect charger no battery charging is also visible. Please any senior member of the forum try to figure it out and give some suggestion..

rawalmaulin said:
I am trying to lookout for the usb storage of the phone by connecting usb cable but even it is not get recognized by the windows. And if I connect charger no battery charging is also visible. Please any senior member of the forum try to figure it out and give some suggestion..
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If nothing recognizes it and has no signs of life, I'm sorry but it seems hard bricked.
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iKoolkid said:
If nothing recognizes it and has no signs of life, I'm sorry but it seems hard bricked.
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Isn't that possible if I could flash bootloader and my phone could atleast start. Or should I go to Samsung and reclaim the device as I have purchased just 10 days back...

rawalmaulin said:
Isn't that possible if I could flash bootloader and my phone could atleast start. Or should I go to Samsung and reclaim the device as I have purchased just 10 days back...
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Go to Samsung and make up something, if Odin can't recognize it or you can't get into recovery, you cannot flash anything.
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